Elf Connect - JavaScript Game Hacking [Sans Holiday Hack 2024]

The first real terminal in the 2024 Sans Holdiay Hack Challenge is Elf Connect, a rift on the New York Time's Connections game. In this video, I'll show how to find the source code in browesr dev tools, autoate solving the game to different degrees, and finally just cheat the score variable.

2024 HHC Blog post: [Coming soon]

[00:00] Introduction
[00:28] Game Overview
[01:18] Dev tools overview / Scope
[04:36] Opening in new window
[05:28] Initial source analysis
[06:25] Print answers JavaScript
[08:00] Solve analysis
[10:20] Solve JavaScript
[13:27] Hacking the score
[15:48] Conclusion

#javascript #ctf #devtools

[neo]

Awesome! Thanks for the insight! This is my first HHC and I a quite green, the amount of fumbling I am doing is somewhat comical. I have been getting most of the solutions but certainly the HARD way. So again THANK YOU for shedding some light on your process and reasoning getting to these solutions, its a great help for my learning. Hand-jamming wordlists and doing content override files are in my past now 😂

[james-work]

Thanks a bunch! I learned a lot from this and your other content. Great explanations!Keep making these!